Neal Communities Donates $10,000 to Youth Sports activities Leaguesto Assist with Hurricane Ian Restoration

Neal Communities supplied $5,000 to the North Port Junior Bobcats Pop Warner soccer league and $5,000 to the Sarasota Babe Ruth Baseball League this yr to assist the leagues with hurricane restoration efforts.

LAKEWOOD RANCH (Could 10, 2023) – Neal Communities, the world’s largest personal dwelling developer, has donated a complete of $10,000 to 2 native sports activities leagues to assist them get better from Hurricane Ian.

Neal Communities donated $5,000 to North Port Junior Bobcats Pop Warner soccer league to help them with gear purchases, together with alternative of soccer gear misplaced or broken by the hurricane final fall. The personal dwelling developer additionally donated $5,000 to Sarasota Babe Ruth Baseball to help them with repairing a storm-damaged dugout roof and the principle constructing’s roof on the group’s fields off Fruitville Highway.

“It’s good that Neal Communities cares in regards to the space and our native youth,” stated Junior Bobcats President Harry Russom, who is also the land growth supervisor for Neal Communities. Russom requested the funds via an inner course of that Neal Communities has in place to help workers and their group service.

The North Port group was severely impacted by Hurricane Ian in September. After the tough winds subsided, rising floodwaters additional broken properties and property. The North Port Junior Bobcats league’s soccer gamers and their households had been negatively impacted and a few even misplaced their properties, Russom stated. Within the aftermath, the league’s soccer gear, together with padding and helmets, had been destroyed or misplaced.

“It was onerous on folks, particularly those that had misplaced a lot,” Russom stated. “The funds are serving to us to get the gear that we want in order that we will proceed to play.”

The pop warner soccer league usually has about 125 soccer gamers unfold all through 5 completely different age teams, together with ages six and underneath, ages seven and eight, ages 9 and 10, ages 11 and 12 and ages 13 and 14. The league additionally has a cheer program with about 85 kids. The group affords each a fall and spring season and performs at North Port Excessive Faculty’s soccer stadium, referred to as “The Protect.”

“The world is rising and so are our youth sports activities groups,” Russom stated. “Neal Communities’ tagline is ‘The place You Dwell Issues,’ which is likely one of the causes that I got here to work for the corporate. Their values align with my values and rules.”

Neal Communities has given greater than $7.75 million to native charities all through Southwest Florida and is dedicated to the communities the place they reside, work and construct.

“Native youth sports activities leagues like North Port’s Junior Bobcats and Sarasota Babe Ruth Baseball have a constructive impression on the youngsters in our native communities,” stated Pat Neal, founder and president of Neal Communities. “We’re proud to help these group’s efforts – particularly to assist them get better a few of their losses after the storm.”

For Sarasota Babe Ruth Baseball, the funds can be used to switch roofs on a dugout and essential constructing at their fields close to the nook of Beneva Highway and Fruitville Highway, stated Rob LaGasse, a longtime coach for Babe Ruth Baseball.

“Our common dues don’t all the time cowl the complete operation bills, so we run fundraisers all yr,” LaGasse stated. “However nothing covers sudden wants just like the repairs to those buildings.”

LaGasse first began teaching for the little league 13 years in the past when his son, Alex, acquired concerned in baseball. Alex outgrew this system, however LaGasse stayed on as a coach. He stated he enjoys working with the youngsters and instructing them about teamwork and being a pacesetter.

“Folks don’t notice that studying to be a workforce participant helps set youngsters up for fulfillment. They turn out to be future enterprise house owners and learn to be leaders,” stated LaGasse, who is also a pool designer for Waterscapes Swimming pools & Spas, a part of the Neal Communities’ household of firms.

Babe Ruth Baseball is for ballplayers ages 13 to fifteen who need to proceed their baseball enjoying expertise past the age of 12. With each a fall and spring season, the gamers compete on commonplace 90-foot diamonds underneath official baseball guidelines utilized by Main League Baseball.

LaGasse stated he’s grateful for Neal Communities’ donation to assist the Sarasota Babe Ruth Baseball league repair their services. “It makes me proud to work right here,” he stated. “It’s actually a family-owned enterprise they usually care about their workers’ pursuits.”

For extra details about Neal Communities, go to www.NealCommunities.com. For extra details about North Port Junior Bobcats Pop Warner or to donate to the group to help with storm restoration, go to www.NPJrBobcats.com. For extra details about Sarasota Babe Ruth Baseball, go to www.SarasotaBabeRuth.com, and to ship a donation to help with storm restoration, e-mail [email protected].

About Neal Communities
Neal Communities, based mostly in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, is Southwest Florida’s largest and most established domestically owned and operated personal builder. Through the firm’s 50-year historical past, it has constructed greater than 20,000 new properties in additional than 90 acclaimed communities from Tampa to Naples. The corporate persistently ranks among the many nation’s prime 100 dwelling builders and has earned quite a few awards together with the celebrated Builder of the 12 months from Skilled Builder in 2015 and America’s Finest Builder in 2012 from BUILDER Journal. With a core perception that “The place You Dwell Issues,” Neal Communities has given greater than $7.75 million to native charities all through Southwest Florida and is dedicated to the communities the place they reside, work and construct. Firm gross sales in fiscal yr 2022 had been simply over $600 million.

Extra Neal Communities manufacturers embody Neal Signature Properties, Charlene Neal PureStyle, Waterscapes Swimming pools & Spas, Neal Communities Funding and Allegiant Title Professionals. For extra data, go to NealCommunities.com.

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